From a4eb490a41a0da3b1275fc7427084cf9ae2c3c1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:56:10 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] HID: intel-ish-hid: use put_device() instead of kfree()
Git-commit: a4eb490a41a0da3b1275fc7427084cf9ae2c3c1c
Patch-mainline: v4.17-rc5
References: bsc#1051510
Never directly free @dev after calling device_register(), even
if it returned an error. Always use put_device() to give up the
reference initialized.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
---
drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c
index f272cdd9bd55..2623a567ffba 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c
@@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ static struct ishtp_cl_device *ishtp_bus_add_device(struct ishtp_device *dev,
list_del(&device->device_link);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->device_list_lock, flags);
dev_err(dev->devc, "Failed to register ISHTP client device\n");
- kfree(device);
+ put_device(&device->dev);
return NULL;
}
--
2.17.1